COUNTY CRICKET BATTLE
CHAMPIONSHIP CONTEST MOST KEEN
TWO LEADERS NOW LEVEL (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.28 a.m. LONDON, Wed. The fight for the county cricket championship has been intensified by yesterday’s results. The position is now most open and most interesting. Nottingham has lost the leadership, and Kent Is now practically out of the running. The present position is:
QUEENSLAND COACH
DUCAT OF SURREY ACCEPTS POSITION (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.20 a.m. LONDON, Wed. Andy Ducat, of Surrey, who is twenty-second in English cricket averages, lias accepted the Queensland Cricket Association’s offer to act as coach there.
AFRICAN CRICKETERS
Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Wed. The South African cricketers, in their first innings against Hampshire, made 259 (MacMillan 53, Owen-Smith 51). Hampshire replied with 168 for four wickets (Brown 75), and stums were then drawn.
Tate is unable to play against South Africa in the fifth test. His substitute is not yet announced.
Gloucester .. .. Lancashire .. .. Nottingham .. .. Yorkshire Kent Sussex Derby
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 742, 15 August 1929, Page 9
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163COUNTY CRICKET BATTLE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 742, 15 August 1929, Page 9
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